Summoned with her mother to Gestapo headquarters in 1943, 14 year old Cordelia
was given the terrible choice: to acknowledge her secret Jewish heritage and
suffer the consequences or to see her mother charged with treason. The true
story of the love between a mother and daughter. (HS)

Fluek, Toby K. Memories of My Life in a Polish Village. New York:
Knopf, 1990.

Paintings, drawings, and text of a young girl growing up (1930-1949) takes
the reader through a time before, during and after the war. (All ages)

Friedman, Carl. Nightfather. New York: Persea Books, 1994.

Survivor's children live in the everyday world and also in their father's
nightmare world of the camps. The tragedy of the Holocaust is passed down
from parent to child through the bond of love.

A biography of a young German woman who defied the Nazis by helping to restore
human rights and dignity to those she befriended. (MS, HS)

Friedman, Ina R. The Other Victims: First Person Stories of Non-Jews
Persecuted by the Nazis. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1990.

Nonfiction book dealing with the Nazi tactics against the non-Jews and factions
they found dangerous, such as the Church. (MS)

Grossman, Mendel. With a Camera in the Ghetto. New York: Schoken
Books, 1977.

Actual pictures taken by Grossman who was interned in the Lodz ghetto before
he died. (MS, HS)

Holliday, Laurel. Children in the Holocaust and World War II: Their Secret
Diaries. New York: Pocket Books, 1995.

An anthology of diaries written by children across Nazi-occupied Europe and
in England. Twenty three young people, ages ten through eighteen, recount
in vivid detail the horrors they lived through, day after day. (MS, HS)

The fictional Mischa shares his life in the Warsaw ghetto from 1939-1942
in the orphanage of Janusz Korczak. Based on actual documents. (MS)

Leitner, Isabella. Fragments of Isabella: A Memoir of Auschwitz.
New York: Crowell, 1978.

A memoir of Auschwitz. The Katz family are sent to Auschwitz. Seven of them
would stand before Dr. Mengele. Not all of Isabella's family would survive.
(Factual) (HS)

Lewin, Rhoda G. Witness to the Holocaust. Boston: Twayne, 1990.

Sixty oral testimonies from the concentration camp survivors, partisans,
those in hiding, and liberators. (HS)

Lowry, Lois. Number the Stars. New York: Dell Publishing, 1990.

Ten year old Annemarie Johansen and her best friend Ellen Rosen often think
about life before the war. But it's now 1943 and Annemarie must find the strength
and courage to save her best friend's life. (MS)

Lustig, Arnost. Darkness Casts No Shadows. Washington: Inscape, 1976.

Two boys who are longtime concentration camp survivors finally escape a "death
train" and struggle to maintain their freedom and regain their dignity.
(Factual) (HS)

Marks, Jane. The Hidden Children. New York: Fawcett, 1993.

Twenty three hidden children give testimony about their experiences during
the war. Very powerful vignettes. (HS)

Meed, Vladka. On Both Sides of the Wall. New York: Schocken Books,
1979.

Vladka Meed was 17 when Hitler's army conquered Poland. Thanks to her Aryan
appearance, her fluent Polish and her gallantry, she was able to smuggle weapons
to the Jewish Fighting Organization inside the Warsaw Ghetto during uprising.
(HS/A)

Meltzer, Milton. Never to Forget. New York: Harper and Row, 1976.

Meltzer turns statistics back into people, as the men, women and children
who lived the Nazi terror tell it in their own words. The accounts reveal
everyday life in the Nazi ghettos and labor and death camps. They detail the
many ways Jews resisted Hitler in ghetto and camp uprisings, underground partisan
actions, and in individual decisions to "live and die with dignity."
(Factual) (MS, HS)

Meltzer, Milton. Rescue: The Story of How Gentiles Saved Jews in the
Holocaust. New York: Harper Collins Children's Books, 1991.

Leo Baeck helped thousands of Jews escape from Germany, but refused to escape
himself. The story of his work, his time in a concentration camp, and his
liberation, as well as his rise as a respected Jewish leader. (MS, HS)

Novac, Ana. The Beautiful Days of My Youth. New York: Henry Holt
and Co., 1992.

Ana survived the war and preserved her diary, the only such account to emerge
from Auschwitz with its author. A record of life triumphing over death, as
seen through the eyes of a teenager.

Orgel, Doris. The Devil in Vienna. New York: Puffin Books, 1988.

A 13 year old girl recounts the difficulties of maintaining her friendship
with the daughter of a Nazi. (MS)

Alex is eleven and alone in the ghetto. His mother has disappeared and his
father has been "selected" by the Germans. He is forced to take
shelter in a bombed-out building at 78 Bird Street. He must forage for food
and fuel to survive the cold Polish winter. (Factual) (MS)

Orlev, Uri. The Man from the Other Side. Boston: Houghton Mifflin,
1991.

A novel based on a real life boy who smuggled goods into and people out of
the Warsaw ghetto. (MS)

Petit, Jayne. A Place to Hide. New York: Scholastic, Inc., 1993.

The story of rescuers who risked their lives to help others. (MS)

Reiss, Johanna. The Upstairs Room. New York: Harper and Row, 1972.

It is too late for the Dutch family to escape so their father does his best
in arranging hiding places for each of his children and himself. (Factual)
(MS)

What happens when people do not stand firm against what they know to be evil
and lies. (E, MS)

Richter, Hans Peter. Friedrich. New York: Puffin Books, 1987.

This story tells of Friedrich's growing up years in Germany during the early
1930s. Friedrich's father is deported to a "work" camp and his mother
dies leaving Friedrich to fend for himself. (Factual) (MS, HS)

The narrator of this book and his friends were actual members of Hitler's
Youth movement. Told in the first person, it gives an intimate glimpse into
the lives of German youth of the period preceding and during World War II.
(MS, HS)

Rittner, Carol and Sandra Meyers, eds. The Courage to Care. New York:
New York University Press, 1986.

The stories of non-Jews who risked their lives to protect and rescue Jews.

Roth-Hano, Renee. Touch Wood. New York: Puffin Books, 1989.

Renee must learn to obey curfews and wear a star. Then she is separated from
her parents. (MS)

Nicole and her family feel safe in France during the German occupation since
they are non-religious Jews. They soon realize that non-religious Jews are
in as much danger as religious ones. Nicole is 8 years old at the beginning
of the story and 13 at the end. (Factual) (MS, HS)

Schaur, Steven. The Shadow Children. New York: Morrow, 1994.

What really happened to the children of Mont Brulant is the question Etienne
has for his grandfather after the end of WWII. (E, MS)

Sender, Ruth Minsky. The Cage. New York: Macmillan, 1986.

Teenager Riva Minska survives Auschwitz. She vows to live long enough to
tell the story of her people's faith and courage. (HS)

On a cold, dark night in Warsaw in 1942 Edek and Ruth Balicki watch in horror
as Nazi storm troopers arrest their mother. Alone, they are determined to
find their father who is safe in Switzerland. (MS)

Siegal, Aranka. Grace in the Wilderness: After the Liberation, 1945-1948.
New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1985.

Sequel to Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary, 1939-1944.
Sisters survive the horror of the death camps only to learn they have no home
left. Shows what it was like to be a teenage survivor of the Holocaust and
how hope and courage can mean survival. (HS)

Siegal, Aranka. Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary, 1939-1944.
New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 1981.

The story of how a family attempts to stay together.

Silver, Eric. The Book of the Just. New York: Grove Press, 1992.

Oral history and personal testimonies of the hunted and the liberators. (HS)

Spiegelman, Art. Maus. Volumes I and II. New York: Pantheon, 1991.

The author relates his parents' stories through the use of cartoons. (MS,
HS)

A resource book on the Holocaust divided into eighteen thematic units arranged
in chronological order and comprised of children's diary entries, survivors'
testimonies, and pictures representing the various countries (and times) in
which the events took place. (MS)

Voight, Cynthia. David and Jonathan. Scholastic Books: 1992.

Voight's characters question enduring issues of racism, survivor guilt, and
altruistic self sacrifice as they reflect on the Holocaust. (MS)

Volakova, Hana, ed. I Never Saw Another Butterfly. New York: Schocken.
1978.

Though Anna survives the Holocaust, she struggles with the burden of her
survival. Sequel to Hide and Seek. (MS, HS)

Vos, Ida. Hide and Seek. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1991.

Spare vignettes of a young Dutch girl's life during the Nazi occupation.

Wiesel, Elie. Night. New York: Bantam Books, 1960.

Story of a Hungarian boy and his father. It reveals the special perception
of the moral effects that suffering can have on its victims. (HS)

Wilkomirski, Binjamin. Fragments. New York: Schocken Books, 1996.

The author pieces together the fragments of his life from recollections of
a childhood in Latvia, separation from family, and his imprisonment in Majdanek
at the age of four. From inside the mind of a little boy, we experience love
and loss, terror and friendship, and a return to the real world. (HS)

Yolen, Jane. The Devil's Arithmetic. New York: Viking Kestrel, 1988.

Hannah opens the door for Elijah during a Passover Seder and finds herself
in Poland in the 1940s. (MS)